Alexander Publishing

The Street Smart Guide™ to Logic 8
By Peter Lawrence Alexander
330 pps, Ill., $29.95
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Synopsis
The Street Smart Guide™ to Logic 8 is a practical, common sense easy-to-use way to learn Apple’s Logic 8. It’s written in simple English in an easy-to-use problem/solution manner that covers 37 specific tasks you need to know to get the most of out Logic 8. Each of the 37 tasks covered is stepped out in plain English with virtually every move illustrated with four-color screen pictures. Talk about easy to read! The text is in 12-point type letting you can easily go back and forth onscreen between Logic 8 and The Street Smart Guide™ to Logic 8. Or print it out and put it in a 3-ring binder. Or both!

The Street Smart Guide™to Logic 8 also covers setting up external MIDI instruments (MIDI keyboard and computer), MIDI editing with EastWest PLAY and Vienna Instrument libraries, basics of applying effects including a master delay table, working with notation to produce lead sheets for publication, Bach chorales for school work and divisi writing, and other projects.

How to Use The Street Smart Guide™to Logic 8
The Street Smart Guide™to Logic 8 is organized like a course. Each lesson builds on the other. It’s organized by five sections:

1. Setup and MIDI Recording
2. MIDI Editing/Recording to Audio
3. Notation Basics
4. Beginning Audio and Recording
5. Catch all

Start with Lesson 1 and keep going. Having trained composers and music educators on Logic with this book, generally, you’ll be productive and creating music within a few hours.

Learn Recording Basics, Too!
With Logic, you can do MIDI recording and also recording with a microphone. The Street Smart Guide™ to Logic 8 walks you through all the basic effects and shows you how to apply them in a way that’s really easy to understand.

If you want to get going with Logic 8 fast with no wasted time, The Street Smart Guide™ to Logic 8 is a must have.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Section 1 - Setup and MIDI Recording
Lesson 1 - Getting Started
Lesson 2 - Software Instruments
Lesson 3 - MIDI Recording
Lesson 4 - Multiple Time Signatures
Lesson 5 - Multiple Tempos
Lesson 6 - Advanced Multiple Tempos
Lesson 7 - Next Recording Steps
Lesson 8 - Autopunch/Replace
Lesson 9 - Step Time

Section 2 - MIDI Editing/Recording to Audio
Lesson 10 - Software Instrument Inspector - Part 1
Lesson 11 - Software Instrument Inspector - Part 2
Lesson 12 - Automation & The Software Instrument Inspector
Lesson 13 - Audio Inspector
Lesson 14 - External Synth/Sampler Setup
Lesson 15 - Region Editing
Lesson 16 - The Region as Musical Phrase
Lesson 17 - Note Length
Lesson 18 - Tick Values
Lesson 19 - Quantizing
Lesson 20 - The Payoff

Section 3 - Notation Basics
Lesson 21 - Creating a Lead Sheet
Lesson 22 - Creating a Bach Chorale

Section 4 - Beginning Audio and Recording
Lesson 23 - Multimbral Setup For Software Instruments
Lesson 24 - Signal Flow and the Logic Mixing Board
Lesson 25 - Beginning Reverb
Lesson 26 - Beginning Space Designer
Lesson 27 - The Other Main Effects
Lesson 28 - EQ Basics
Lesson 29 - Setting Up For Recording With a Single Mic
Lesson 30 - Audio Editing Basics

Section 5 - Catch All
Lesson 31 - Naming Tracks
Lesson 32 - Setting Up the Fermata
Lesson 33 - Tuplets
Lesson 34 - Markers
Lesson 35 - Groups
Lesson 36 - MIDI Import
Lesson 37 - EXS Import

Author of Professional Orchestration
Peter Lawrence Alexander is an award winning journalist. He’s an accomplished songwriter, composer and orchestrator. Many of his music books endorsed by winners of the Academy®, Grammy®, Emmy® and G.A.N.G. Awards. Mr. Alexander’s books include: Applied Professional Harmony, Professional Orchestration™, How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite, The Instant Composer: Counterpoint by Fux, and Writing for Strings™. His historical fiction works for book and stage include The Road of Blood: The Untold Story of The Good Samaritan, and The Unfaithful Wife: The Story of Hosea and Gomer.